Valerie Bertinelli is opening up about what she’s realized within the wake of a sequence of private {and professional} challenges over the previous 12 months.
The actor-turned-celebrity chef addressed what she described as “some of the most emotionally excruciating eight months of my life” in a prolonged submit on Instagram final week, noting: “I don’t know that I would change any of it.”
“I started two jobs in different states and writing my new book all while going through some of the most emotionally excruciating eight months of my life. And I still got my exhausted, sleepless ass up in the morning, put on a good face, and showed up, when all I wanted to do was stay in bed and sob,” she wrote.
“This is not to say I feel sorry for myself because I don’t. Nobody has the market cornered on grief and heartache,” she continued. “People go through hard shit all the time. You just do what you have to do to get through what you have to get through.”
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Bertinelli, whose Hollywood résumé consists of the CBS sequence “One Day at a Time” and “Touched by an Angel,” steered away from specifics all through her submit. In 2024, she started internet hosting the Recreation Present Community’s “Bingo Blitz” and joined “The Drew Barrymore Show” as a life-style knowledgeable. She additionally unveiled a brand new cookbook, “Indulge.”
Reflecting on that attempting interval, nonetheless, Bertinelli mentioned she realized how a lot she’s realized about “my strength, my weaknesses, my patience, my resilience, and my worth,” and hopes to encourage followers to look inward, too.
“If I could give you anything of value from my experience it would be this; don’t let the challenging days make you forget how far you’ve actually come. No matter what, always believe in your core self,” she wrote. “Do not allow the opinions of others or their experience with you, color what you think of yourself. You did your best with what you knew at the time.”
Bertinelli, the previous host of “Valerie’s Home Cooking” and “Kids Baking Championship” on the Meals Community, has generated headlines as of late after what some have perceived as a less-than-amicable break up from life-style author Mike Goodnough, whom she dated for about 10 months.
In April, Goodnough took a public swipe at his ex, accusing her of “lapsing into a place where she has been playing a one-woman tennis match thinking there is someone on the other side of the net” in a since-deleted Instagram submit.
Later that month, Goodnough clarified his remarks considerably, noting there have been “external” obstacles that prevented him and Bertinelli from having fun with a extra secure romance.
“The one thing that was never an issue was our love for each other,” he wrote on Instagram. “I loved Valerie more than I’ve ever loved someone in a relationship of choice. (My love for my son is a whole different thing).”
Describing his break up from Bertinelli as “by far the most painful experience of my life,” Goodnough mentioned he’d reached out to his ex in an effort to search out “a way to a gentle parting rather than a closed door” however by no means heard again.
“No answer is an answer though. I accept it,” he wrote. “With that said, this chapter is now closed for me.”
